Cool things:
At the end, the New Gods (Barda and Orion) leave. Somehow I just never warmed up to them, or to what I could grasp of their concept. And I wasn't the only one...
The Huntress talking Green Lantern out of the queen bee's mind control. "You're Green Lantern. You control the most powerful weapon in the universe, remember? Which means your willpower is much stronger than a bunch of bug pheromones, I know it is! And if it isn't, I'm going to shoot you in the head."
Plastic Man showing that he's more than just a man-sized ball of Silly Putty when he comes up with a plan against the bees, based on his, um, bee expertise.
Less cool stuff
The New Gods, although they did provide the premise for the story. (Was it a crossover? I hate crossovers.) Okay, so Barda was tolerable. But Metron? Still annoying.
Things that made me laugh (well, smile):
Unlikely people making unlikely jokes...
Questions:
In this story arc, Batman threw Huntress out of the JLA because she was about to kill Prometheus. Can he do that? I mean, I know the JLA has a no-kill rule, but you'd think there'd be some sort of official procedure, a court-martial or some such thing. (Actually this is something I've noticed that I haven't seen in many comics--the very explicit focus on not killing--in many books it's an assumption, but it's rarely addressed so specifically so often.)
And what is the deal with the Spectre? I mean in general. I know that at this point the old Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) is the Spectre, and I know that right now he isn't, so I gather it's a sort of job. Is there always that sort of tension between the Spectre's goal-oriented nature and the tempering influence of the mortal "host"?
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